KJV King James Version
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Hosea 12:12
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
WEB World English Bible
Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
ASV American Standard Version
And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Jacob doth flee to the country of Aram, And Israel doth serve for a wife, Yea, for a wife he hath kept watch.
Surrounding context — Hosea 12
9 And I [that am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
11 [Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
14 Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
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Genesis 31:41Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.Genesis 29:18-28And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.Genesis 28:1-22And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.Genesis 27:43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;Deuteronomy 26:5And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:Genesis 32:27-28And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.
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